Joseph Kunkel is a community designer and educator based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He serves as a principal at MASS Design Group, where he leads the Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab. A citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, Joseph’s work focuses on sustainable design practices that support culturally centered, vibrant, and dignified development in Indigenous communities, from affordable housing to critical community infrastructure. He is a former Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow and has received numerous honors, including the Obama Fellowship (2019), the inaugural Elaine Johnson Coates Award from the University of Maryland (2021), the Rubinger Community Fellowship from LISC (2022), and selection to the Aspen Institute’s Civil Society Fellowship as a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.